Author: Robert N. Huey Paperback: 512 pages List Price: $49.50 Availability: In Stock at Barnes & Noble |
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The Making of Shinkokinshu |
Shinkokinshu--the "New Kokinshu"--has been viewed as a neoclassical effort. Reading history backward, scholars have often taken the work to be the outgrowth of a nostalgia for greatness presumed to have been lost in the wars of the origins of the collection. But the author argues that the compliers of Shinkokinshu instead saw it as a "new" beginning, a revitalization and affirmation of courtly traditions, and not a reaction to loss. It is a dynamic collection, full of innovative, challenging poetry--not an elegy for a lost age. |